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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
They’ll find out...we’ll all find out.
If the morbidity for seniors is a lot higher than the younger population it’s safe to assume that most of the celebrants you saw were seniors.
I wonder how they would respond if offered a hat with five chips in it — four saying “free dinner for you and your party” and the fifth saying “you die”? How many do you think would play the game? Because those are pretty close to the real odds if a senior gets infected.
By the way, the CDC’s current definition of “senior” for the purpose of calculating morbidity rates for the coronavirus is age 50 and above.
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You might want to rethink that 20% number.
Covid 19 death rate percentages by age: (by those with confirmed cases)
80 + 21.9%
70-79 8%
60-69 3.6%
50-59 1.3%
40-49 0.4%
30-39 0.2%
20-29 0.2%
10-19 0.2%
<10 0.001
50% of all Covid 19 deaths appear to be coming from nursing homes (see my previous thread) If you are 50 to 69, living in single family home, your chances of dying are pretty small. The 21.9% number for those over 80 years is probably 80-90% coming from nursing homes.